Japan first rose to be a modern world power during the Meiji period.
The Meiji period or Meiji era, is an era of Japanese history which extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912.
This era constitutes the first half of the Empire of Japan, a period in which the Japanese population stopped being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonisation by European powers to become a modern, industrialised nationstate and emergent great power, influenced by Western scientific, technological, philosophical, political, legal, and aesthetic ideas.
